Good morning. I'm not feeling very well this morning. I spent the better part of the day in bed yesterday and still not up to snuff. I'll be working at 5:00 this afternoon. Working on feeling better by then. Have a good day all.

I thought the Weekend would never end. Happy Monday! Today's fun started with me feeding the Outdoorsies and suddenly from just above me came this BEEP BEEP BEEP. Yes I'm yelling because it was so loud I jumped. Thought it might be a smoke alarm in my laundry room. Looked up after the cats went wacky and ran all over the place and it was a huge Parrot! Lovely red chested, blue wings. Wow! All the ferals were trying to catch it, but it kept flying around. I tried to chum it but it wasn't interested. Then I heard an 'answering call' from a few houses away. I'm thinking it might be the annual Mexico to US parrot migration. I'm going to look it up and see. Hope I don't find red and blue feathers all over my yard.

I took the dogs for a run and they are now sleeping. I'm heading to the shower and then cook up a few side dishes and salad dressing that hubby asked for. I'm out of the corner for only a few hours so I have to get my chores in there. It felt good to vacuum up all the dog hair. The dogs are doing their spring shed.

Joe, so sorry you woke up late. Does that mean you were late from work too? I did get the dogs out and it was snowing little pellets when we were walking that hurt my face but it's 34 degrees out so it doesn't stick. We had a white coating this morning but it was gone by ten or so.

L4L, I can pull handfuls of hair out of both of them. It is amazing how much hair they have. Are you all feeling better now?

Nope Joe, I had a huge parrot in my yard. Drove the Outdoorsies crazy for a few minutes. Heard another one 'echoing' his cries about 1/2 block South. I'm pretty sure it's the annual Mexico to Calif migration of the parrots. Didn't see any clipped wings, seemed to be a healthy bird and no bands on the feet. I'm gonna keep looking but he took off after 5 minutes and no more calls from him or the other one. I tried to coax him down but he didn't seem to be the least interested in humans. We have been known to have herds of wild parrots coming over the border. I wonder if they are considered immigrants?